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- From: veggie@works.uucp (The Deth Volkswagen)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: LSD Murder
- Message-ID: <g3oeuB1w165w@works.uucp>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 20:14:15 GMT
- Organization: The Works BBS - Informational Archives - Est. 1985
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- There was an interesting tidbit in this weeks Newsweek, on page 10...
- It's under the _CRIME_ section, and the Headline is "Jell-O Murder"...
- The text of the article follows:
-
- "Who laced Richard Alfredo's Jell-O? In 1990, the Westport, Mass., man
- died of a heart attack after eating the wiggly dessert served by his
- girlfriend Christina Martin. There was no autopsy. But after hearing
- reports that Martin had talked to drug dealers about killing her lover,
- police exhumed Alfredo's body - and found huge doses of LSD in his blood.
- Then Martin's daughter Teasha said she - not her mother - poisoned
- Alfredo because he had sexually abused her. But Mom was found guilty of
- "The Jell-O Murder" anyway."
-
- OK. No my question is... Just how likely is this? First of all, I know
- for a fact that there has never been any confirmed incidences of death by
- OVERDOSE of LSD... There's been Urban Myths, but that's all. When you
- consider that the LD-50 for LSD-25 is approx. 1,400 MILLIgrams, and the
- average dose of LSD-25 is 100 - 200 MICROgrams... It seems highly
- unlikely that you're gonna die from it. Also, that is only the Estimated
- LD-50, since, Like I said, no one has ever died from it. Anyway.
-
- I was also under the impression that LSD was almost undetectable in
- the bloodstream. Does this change after death? I doubt it. Did Newsweek
- simply fuck up in their reporting of the incident? Probably.
-
- Anyone have any thoughts on the matter?
- - Veg
-